This Blog will be my synopsis of regular activity and updates on the plug share website for Electric Vehicle Charging Station. I will regularly list the current total number of stations, number of stations added, and if possible - the number of check-in's or uses of public stations.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Plugshare lists a total of 16,464 StationsThey use dynamic tracking to add new - and remove redundant, or test stations, but for those that are dropped, or removed, it is done manually, so simply adding in the new additions - does not equal the total numbers, and sometimes - new additions are listed - but need to have their duplicate entries purged. My count is 16,368 Stations. I have not listed all duplicate stations and they may not have purged them yet. I may have counted 1 as a count for one listing - but it might represent multiple chargers, hence some of the differences.

Over the last 24 hours - there have been 21 New Public Chargers, and 4 new Restricted Chargers added to the PlugShare network, plus 76 New Photos, and 9 New home stations being shared.

The additions tracked are:

New Public Chargers Added = 21

New Restricted Stations added = 4

New Photos Added = 76

New Home Stations Shared = 9

113People Checked into Public EV Chargers today. More Chargers added, More public uses - more today than yesterday!

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